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Washington Heights firearm ring thwarted

43 firearms were recovered.

It was a heist in the Heights, courtesy of the cops.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., and New York City Police Commissioner (NYPD) James O’Neill announced the takedown of a Washington Heights-based firearm ring consisting of 11 individuals –who were arrested and charged with conspiring to sell 43 pistols, assault rifles, revolvers, and ammunition.

The authorities said alleged ringleader Bienvenido Liriano, 32, and other defendants had ties to the Trinitarios street gang.

The defendants are all charged in a 96-count New York State Supreme Court indictment with Conspiracy in the Fourth Degree, as well as various counts of Criminal Sale of a Firearm in the First, Second, and Third Degrees, and other related charges.

“In the safest borough of the safest big city in America, we’re still losing New Yorkers to gun violence,” said Vance in a statement. “Since I formed our Violent Criminal Enterprises Unit in 2010, our proactive gun trafficking investigations have yielded 36 indictments against 94 traffickers, removing more than 1,800 illegal guns from our streets.

According to the indictment and documents filed in court, beginning on October 9, 2018, Liriano and his co-defendants sold 43 firearms, including 33 semi-automatic pistols, six revolvers, and four assault rifles, as well as 353 rounds of corresponding ammunition, to an undercover NYPD detective posing as a firearms dealer. The sales took place in or around the undercover detective’s vehicle over 27 separate transactions, with prices ranging from $700 to $2,100 per firearm.

“We’re still losing New Yorkers to gun violence,” said Manhattan DA Cy Vance.

Typically, Liriano coordinated sales over the phone and then met with the undercover detective in the vicinity of West 161st Street and Broadway. The other defendants then helped supply Liriano with the firearms, most of which were local “street guns,” and many joined Liriano when selling to the undercover. Frazier trafficked at least seven guns from South Carolina, where he resides. Additionally, Wynt, who supplied a total of eight operable firearms, frequently traveled back and forth between New York City and South Carolina.

“The firearms takedown we’re announcing today – more than 40 guns, including 33 semiautomatic pistols, several assault weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition – is one of the ways we’re confronting, head-on, our city’s increase in shootings,” said NYPD Commissioner James P. O’Neill. “To sustain record-low levels of crime in New York City, and to further reduce violence and disorder, we must hold illicit gun dealers responsible for their actions and do all we can to remove every illegal gun from our streets.”

The investigation was conducted jointly by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Violent Criminal Enterprises Unit (VCEU) and the NYPD’s Firearms Investigation Unit.

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